July 23, 2004

Presidential Visions in 1944 and Today

To the Editor:

Cass R. Sunstein's "We Need to Reclaim the Second Bill of Rights" (The Chronicle Review, June 11) presents an interesting and obvious slant on a major part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's re-election platform in 1944. Roosevelt was concerned about the possibility that with the end of the world war, the American economy might fall back into the doldrums of economic depression. He wanted to reassure the nation that the government was committed to the well-being of every